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<div align="center"><b><i>Modern Times, Rural Places:<br><br>
Seminar Series at MIT<br><br>
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Lynn Nyhart<br><br>
</b>Associate Professor of History of Science<br><br>
University of Wisconsin<br><br>
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<b>Caring for Nature: Practical Zoology and Nature Protection in
Nineteenth-Century Germany <br><br>
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In the German-speaking lands of the 1860s and 1870s, a populist form of
natural history arose that focused on living animals. Closely
connected to the zoo movement, devotees of this form of zoology objected
to the museum study of dead animals for classification, and sought
instead to understand animals as living individuals. In this paper, I
examine the practical and moral issues raised among those who cared for
animals, concentrating especially on the work of Phillip Leopold Martin,
the community's leading spokesman. I argue that the work of Martin
and others in this community reveals a hitherto-unseen connection between
caring for individual captive animals and nature protection, which in
turn represents a particular response to late nineteenth-century
modernity. <br><br>
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<div align="center"><b>Friday, February 18, 2005<br><br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br><br>
MIT, Building E51 Room 095<br><br>
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Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
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